page_title: Escapees' Medal
section_title: Notable recipients (partial list)
hierarchical_section_title: Escapees' Medal / Notable recipients (partial list)
caption_attribution_description: English: French Colonel Arnaud de Foiard Français&#160;: Colonel Arnaud de Foiard
context_page_description: The Escapees' Medal is a military award bestowed by the government of France to individuals who were prisoners of war and who successfully escaped internment or died as a result of their escape attempt. The "Escapees' Medal" was established by a 1926 law, intended to honour combatants not only of the First World War, but also of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Its statute was later amended to include combatants of the Second World War and later conflicts.
context_section_description: General Charles de Gaulle
  General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque
  General Marie-Pierre Kœnig
  Lieutenant General Marcel Bigeard
  Foreign Legion Lieutenant-Colonel Prince Dimitri Zedguinidze-Amilakhvari
  Journalist Michel Moine
  Foreign Legion Sergeant Peter J. Ortiz
  General Edgard de Larminat
  General Paul Arnaud de Foïard
  General Raoul Magrin-Vernerey
  Warrant Officer Raymond Duc
  Resistance leader Rene-Georges Laurin
  General Pierre Billotte
  General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
  Resistance fighter Émile Allegret
  René Joyeuse, M.D., MS, FACS (17 January 1920 – 12 June 2012)
caption: Colonel Paul Arnaud de Foïard, a recipient of the Escapees' Medal
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